Kang Jianfei brought a total of seven people here. In addition to the actor Liang Jiahui, there were also bodyguard Liu Fei and five staff members.
In recent years, DreamWorks has extended its tentacles to Europe. It has a subsidiary distribution company in Paris, which is responsible for the distribution of DreamWorks films throughout Europe. It is called DreamWorks (Europe) Distribution Company. The name sounds very loud, but in fact, the entire
The company only has about ten employees including those who sweep the floors.
"Mr. Kang, let's go to the hotel first." Zheng Chunhua asked for instructions.
This Zheng Chunhua is an employee of DreamWorks (Europe) Publishing Company. He came to Cannes specifically to guide Kang Jianfei and his party, and of course he also works part-time as a translator.
Zheng Chunhua had already contacted three taxis. After everyone got on the bus, he said to the three drivers one by one: "Martinez Hotel, thank you!"
Kang Jianfei was sitting in the middle car, and the driver asked curiously: "Japanese coming to attend the Cannes Film Festival?"
Kang Jianfei couldn't understand French, so he could only ask Zheng Chunhua for help: "What did he say?"
Zheng Chunhua laughed and said: "This driver thinks we are Japanese."
Kang Jianfei curled his lips and was too lazy to explain where he was from. It's not about national discrimination. Twenty years from now, a lot of Chinese stars will come to Cannes every year. Naturally, French drivers will no longer ask if they are Japanese, but Japanese.
You may be asked if you are from China.
Because of the International Film Festival, the seaside town of Cannes is extremely lively in early summer every year, and high-end hotels like Martinez have to be booked several months in advance to stay in.
Starting from tomorrow, Kang Jianfei will have to lead his people to set up a booth for exhibition. However, there are dedicated people responsible for the work of setting up the booth and making contacts, and he is actually the most idle one.
There is no threshold for registration at the Cannes Film Festival. A primary school student can apply with a DVD to shoot a film about ants moving. However, whether you can be selected or not depends on the judges of the film festival.
From registration, review of samples, review, and final confirmation, the entire registration process for the Cannes Film Festival lasted several months. Kang Jianfei sent the samples three months ago, and the subsequent review and confirmation were actually just a formality.
Just take out the screening copy two weeks before the festival.
For a new director to be shortlisted for the competition in Cannes, the odds are about the same as buying a lottery ticket. The works of those very famous directors are pre-selected when the film is just launched, because the film festival needs them to expand their influence.
Of course, there are also directors who simply refuse to be invited by the film festival organizing committee for various reasons.
Kang Jianfei is more or less an internationally renowned director. Many of his films have been screened in Europe and the United States. The reason why the Cannes Film Festival enthusiastically accepted him is mainly because Kang Jianfei is very famous in Asia and can help the Cannes Film Festival expand its presence in Asia.
of influence.
In other words, Kang Jianfei doesn't have to worry about whether "Fang Fang" will be shortlisted. Because this was already decided when the filming of the movie first started.
Of course, being shortlisted does not mean winning an award. Today, there are thousands of films registered for the Cannes Film Festival every year, but less than 50 of them can be shortlisted, and only a few can actually win awards in the main competition.
"Fangfang" was announced to be shortlisted for the main competition more than half a month ago. At that time, Kang Jianfei had just completed the post-production. Now the jury of the Cannes Film Festival is organizing the final round of film review, which basically will not be until the awards ceremony.
All awards will be judged in the first two days.
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The film festival booth for "Fang Fang" was set up quickly. Kang Jianfei did not bother to attract attention like some young directors, and he directly asked people to use large-scale stills as the wall of the booth.
The booth hadn't been set up yet. It was Leung Ka-fai's first time attending an international film festival and he couldn't wait to run to the aisles and hand out movie brochures to everyone he saw.
Kang Jianfei called Liang Jiahui back and said with a smile: "There's no need to be so impatient, right?"
Liang Jiahui said with some embarrassment: "I just want to let a few more people know about our movie."
"Don't worry about publicity. I have made arrangements. I deliberately didn't let Sophie Marceau show up today." Kang Jianfei said confidently.
Liang Jiahui asked puzzledly: "Of the entire crew, Sophie is the most famous in France. I think it is most appropriate to make her the focus of publicity."
"Of course she is the center of the publicity, but sometimes she feels more mysterious if she doesn't show up." Kang Jianfei said, leisurely flipping through French magazines after returning to the booth.
When the booth was first set up, no one paid attention to the Asians. However, when Sophie Marceau's image appeared in the stills, several French reporters quickly gathered.
The fish is hooked!
One of the French reporters asked in English: "Is this Sophie Marceau's new film? Who is the director of this film?"
Kang Jianfei sat behind the booth and didn't move. He had already contacted several media in France and would help promote the movie after its premiere. He didn't need to be too enthusiastic about the passing reporters in front of him.
When Liang Jiahui saw reporters coming to inquire, he immediately became happy. He sent several movie brochures to several reporters and introduced: "Our movie is called "Fang Fang" and has been shortlisted for the main competition."
"Oh, so you are the crew of "Fang Fang" and you are the director Kang Jianfei?" one of the reporters said happily. The shortlist of the film festival was announced more than half a month ago, and entertainment reporters like them also studied it.
However, the shortlist of the Cannes Film Festival is not a nomination. It only announces the name, place of production and director of the shortlisted film. So now these reporters only know that "Fang Fang" is a Hong Kong film produced by Kang Jianfei, and have no idea who the starring role is.
Liang Jiahui stepped aside, pointed at Kang Jianfei and said, "This is Director Kang."
It has to be said that although Kang Jianfei is somewhat famous in France, few people can recognize him.
Kang Jianfei stood up slowly, and the reporter shook hands with him happily and said: "Kang, I am Stefan, a reporter from "Marseille Film News", I like to watch your "A Chinese Ghost Story", it is simply amazing.
Can I do an exclusive interview with you?”
"There's no need for an exclusive interview. I think I can answer your questions here." Kang Jianfei smiled politely and refused the tabloid's exclusive interview.
"Okay," the reporter named Stefan pointed to the poster and asked, "Kang, is Miss Marceau the heroine of your new movie?"
Several other reporters also came over. They were not paying attention to Kang Jianfei, but to Sophie Marceau who appeared on the poster.
"Of course, it's very clear on the movie brochure you have." Kang Jianfei pointed at the brochure in Stefan's hand.
A few reporters then remembered to look at the brochure and glanced at it for a few times. Another reporter asked: "Kang, can you reveal a little more about it?"
"About movies?" Kang Jianfei asked.
"Of course," said a reporter, "and why did you choose Sophie Marceau as the heroine?"
Kang Jianfei said: "Does the director need a reason to choose the heroine? As for the content of the movie, I can only say that this is a literary romance film, and Miss Sophie Marceau will appear naked in the film."
"Appear naked!"
Several reporters stared at Kang Jianfei. The pure French kiss, the goddess in the eyes of countless French men, actually appeared naked in a movie directed by a Chinese director.
It's simply blasphemy!
The reporters were not angry about this, but were very excited because it was good news that could arouse topics.
The day after the crew of "Fang Fang" set up their booth, several French media began to report on the matter. They also righteously criticized the shameful Chinese director, believing that Kang Jianfei had brought their pure French kiss to decadence.
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This was indeed a good gimmick, and a lot of newspapers followed up by cursing Kang Jianfei. Several newspapers and magazines that Kang Jianfei paid to cooperate with also followed suit and fanned the flames. Within a few years, the whole French people knew about Sophie Marceau.
Appeared completely naked in a Hong Kong film.
The result of this incident was that on the day "Fang Fang" premiered at the film festival, the theater was packed with people - all of them came to watch Sophie Marceau's nude scene.
If after watching the movie, these people find out that Sophie Marceau didn’t reveal anything and that the so-called nude scene is just a clickbait gimmick, I don’t know how they will react. (To be continued...)u
